dibs vs Marketplace Monitor
A server-side monitoring service sold around car sourcing, with a dedicated account manager on every tier.
Marketplace Monitor’s figures below were read off their own page on 2026-09-18. If they have changed since, trust theirs over ours and tell us.
Marketplace Monitor
- Runs
- On their servers — no browser needed
- Plans
- Starter $24.99 · Intermediate $44.99 · Expert $99.99 · Expert Plus+ $169.99 a month
- Saved searches
- 1 · 3 · 5 · 5 searches
- How often it checks
- An average find time of 5, 3 and 2 minutes, then "instant" on the top plan
- Alert channels
- Push
- Free tier
- None
- Trial
- 7-day trial
- Marketplaces
- Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, OfferUp, eBay, Kijiji, Gumtree
dibs
- Runs
- In your own signed-in browser — no server holds your login
- Plans
- Free · Pro $12 · Power $29 a month, or $9.60 and $23.20 a month billed yearly
- Saved searches
- 3 free · 10 on Pro · 30 on Power
- How often it checks
- Every 15 min free; Pro runs your top 3 every 2 min, Power your top 5 every minute
- Alert channels
- Push, email, Telegram, Discord and signed webhooks — on every plan, free included
- Free tier
- 3 searches, every 15 minutes, no card
- Marketplaces
- Facebook MarketplaceCraigslist and OfferUp are built and ship with the next store release
Where dibs is better
- Their entry plan is $24.99 a month for a single saved search. dibs watches three, free, for nothing.
- Ten searches is $9.60 a month on dibs Pro billed yearly. The nearest thing here is $99.99 a month for five.
- Five alert channels on every plan against push.
Where Marketplace Monitor is better
- It runs on their servers, so it does not need your browser open.
- Six marketplaces against the one dibs watches today.
- Their top tier advertises instant alerts; dibs’ fastest is a check every minute.
Buy Marketplace Monitor if you need eBay, Kijiji or Gumtree, or you want the named account manager they put on every tier — neither is something dibs offers.
What dibs is worse at, whoever you compare it to
- It needs your browser open
- dibs reads the marketplace in your own signed-in browser, which is why no server anywhere holds a login for your account. The price of that is real: close the laptop and the searches stop until you open it again. Every server-side tool on this page keeps running without you, and if that matters more to you than the rest, one of them is the better buy.
- One marketplace today, not nine
- Facebook Marketplace. Not Mercari, Poshmark, eBay, Depop, Vinted, Kijiji, Gumtree, Shpock or Nextdoor. Craigslist and OfferUp are written, tested and waiting on a Chrome Web Store release, and adding a site after those is a selector set and a content script — but the version you can install today watches one.
- It does not tell you what a thing is worth
- Several tools here check a listing against sold comps and estimate your profit. dibs tells you a listing exists, fast, with its photo, price and a link. Judging the deal is still yours.
- There is no phone app
- A Chrome extension and a website. Alerts reach your phone through push, Telegram, Discord or email, but there is nothing to install from an app store.
- We have not published a measured latency number yet
- Every tool in this field advertises a speed. dibs measures its own delivery time end to end, and will publish the real distribution once there is enough data to be honest about — not before. Treat an unsourced speed claim from anyone here, including us, as marketing until it is measured.